"This, then is our desert:
to live facing despair,
but not to consent.
To trample it down under hope in the Cross.
To wage war against despair unceasingly.
That war is our wilderness.
If we wage it courageously,
we will find Christ at our side.
If we cannot face it,
we will never find him."

Tuesday, 18 August 2015

Ave Dulcissima Maria

For Assumptiontide, another hearing for Morten Lauridsen's Ave Dulcissima Maria, sung by the lay clerks of New College, Oxford, under the direction of Edward Higginbottom: